These ambiguities are found in the Book of Thoth where there are several errors and omissions. The injunction ‘Tzaddi is not the Star’ in Liber Aleph, the Book of the Law, caused Aleister Crowley endless problems in finding a suitable partner to transpose with the Star.
Using the Atbash cipher to cast light on the sequence of the Major arcana also helps to understand an enduring problem with the Thoth Tarot. The transposition of L and T has the effect of changing the values for the L/N and K/T pairs, so that we have unique gematria values. Critics can argue that K has the alternative value of 500, which would make the last column 530, but since this not necessary for M, N, P and Tz, we omit this alternative. The GD Cipher instruction transposes T, which is the first letter before the two ‘identical’ pairs with L, which comes after the Y and K. This works fine until the last two pairings YM and KL – they are exactly the same numerically! From a Gematria point of view this is clearly unsatisfactory. The bottom row shows the sum of the two letters in each column.
#ATBASH CIPHER CODE#
There has never been a convincing explanation for this transposition, but there are clues in the Atbash code if we look at pairings rather than the use of the cipher for encryption.
#ATBASH CIPHER SERIES#
When the founders of the Golden Dawn were deciphering a series of texts (using a Masonic code) to set up their own rituals and structures, they were instructed to transpose L and T for Justice and Strength. The table above can easily be simplified by removing the second half as it is simply a repetition: Sophia is of course a Greek word, but this does not seem to detract from the argument (if you are perplexed at this point, Baphomet refers to the Devil, which suggests that it is not as evil some might think). One of the most cited examples is for BPVMTh, Baphomet, which transposed becomes ShVPYA, Sophia or Wisdom. Implicit in Atbash is a hidden relationship between each of the paired letters. Each letter of a word or phrase is substituted for another letter: In the Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown, the Atbash code features – it is one of the most simple, ancient and enduring forms of encryption, found within the Torah, the Atbash code is also associated with the Knights Templars, who may have used it for secret messages. The new ordering of the Atbash cipher based upon the Golden Dawn and Book of Thoth can be used as the basis of further research into Gematria. The Golden Dawn transposition of Justice and Strength is accepted almost without comment, and why there is never-ending confusion as to the transposition of the Star and Emperor in the Book of Thoth which has now been resolved by Stein – it is not Tzaddi, it is a glyph, so the there never was a transposition. Encoded within the Atbash cipher is an elegant solution to the transpositions of Major Arcana carried out by both the Golden Dawn and Aleister Crowley.
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